As Sidharth entered the room he saw Shehnaaz. She was standing in her balcony wearing her Pjs looking at the view with her AirPods in her ear while sipping her chocolate milkshake.

Sidharth facepalmed.

What the hell, is wrong with this girl. For the past half an hour I have been running up and down the stairs enquiring about her and here she is peacefully enjoying the music.

Suddenly, Shehnaaz feels a pat on her shoulder she turns around and gets scared.

"Sidhaaaarth, you scare the shit out of me " she shouts loudly as she spills the chocolate milkshake all over her PJs.

" Seriously? " says Sidharth with a Kabir Singh mode on.

"Sidharth what are you doing inside my house? Did you sabotage into my house?" she said with a confused look upon her face.

"Sabotage? like seriously? do you know how petrified I was? How long does it take for you to open the door? " he said as he was furious.

"I'm really sorry, I didn't hear it, why were you scared though," she said.

" You left the office in anger and you were upset. So I thought I'll come and meet you and clear things out but, then you didn't open the door. The watchman said you hadn't left the building since, the past 3 hours, every possible negative thought came into my head. I didn't know what to do. Then I remembered you had kept the key under the doormat. Do you know how scared I was to lose you? Do you realize how scared I was? My heart was beating so fast anyone could hear it out" he ranted in anger while placing both his hands on her shoulder.

" I'm really very sorry Sidharth," she said making a cute puppy face.

"It's okay. Now we need to discuss the suspension and how we are going to prove you innocent " he said still being in anger mode.

"You wait in the living room, I'll change and come out," Shehnaaz said as her clothes have the milkshake spilt on them.

As I shut the door of my room staring at the clothes to select one. I found myself lost in what just happened between me and Sidharth a few minutes ago. I couldn't stop replaying what just happened in my head and a small smile took over my lips.

Did he really get mad at me because he was scared to lose me? Did he actually say he was here so that we could discuss how to prove myself innocent? Does he have so much trust in me?

These thoughts kept fluttering in my mind, making me blush a little bit.

Pushing the thoughts to the back of my mind, I pulled out another pair of white PJs and tied my hair into a messy knot and walked out of the room, suddenly nervous to face him again.

Shehnaaz came out and sat on the sofa next to Sidharth.

"How did you know I was innocent?" said Shehnaaz.

"I know you, you wouldn't do any such thing and to be logical, you are an I.T engineer if you wanted to fax it. You could easily just change the fax number. So clearly you are being targeted " he said.

"Thanks for trusting me," she said as she looked at him and smiled.

"Why did you leave the office though, what did you hear me talk?" he questioned being curious about it all this time.

"I just heard you saying to Ahaan that I will be suspended for a week," she said.

"Don't you trust me? You really think I'll let anything wrong happen to you?" he said as he wanted to tell her how much faith he had in her.

"I'm sorry Sidharth but, I do trust you a lot," she said.

" it's alright, I'll leave now, will speak to you tomorrow," he said as he got up.

"How will we meet? I can't come to the office for a week" she said with a frown.

"I'll come here again after office hours," he said with a straight face.

" Great! we will have dinner together and discuss it all" she said with a little excitement in her voice although, a volcano of happiness was bursting inside her.

"Alright," said Sidharth as he turned his back towards her and hid his blush since he still had to pretend he was mad at her.

"Monster," Shehnaaz thought to herself as Sidharth didn't show any excitement in them having dinner together at her place. " No! A Cute Monster " her heart corrected herself.

How can I crush on Sidharth Shukla? I mean look at him, he's a giant. 6 feet 2 tall with broad shoulders. And look at me, I'm short, sweet and cute and he doesn't look like but, behaves like a monster when he is mad at me. Definitely, he is a little hot and good looking, but anyone can be scared by just looking at his height and that frowning face he makes.

As I was driving back home from her house. I couldn't stop thinking about her. How eagerly I was waiting for the next evening to have dinner with her and spend time talking to her endlessly. I almost had tears in my eyes even at the thought of losing her. I know, I love her but, doesn't she feel the same for me? Sometimes, her actions shout a yes to me but, I guess it's important to say it out in words as well. What if she is waiting for me today it first? But, What if she considers me to be just her best friend?

A lot of 'what-ifs and buts ' were going inside their heads. They didn't know the answer to it but, they surely knew they were going to fetch for them and get them soon.

As they say, the relationship which is built from the stage of friendship takes a lot of time but, once when it's built, it cannot be broken off easily. So it's better to wait and watch and take the correct decision rather than merely jumping from one relationship to another.

Shehnaaz had always been this person who never dated anyone casually and on the other end, Sidharth was completely different earlier. He might have dated a lot of girls in his past. In fact, as Ahaan said he was a heart breaker in college. Obviously, not with incorrect intentions but, he was never serious.

Now, the case was completely different. He was 35 and was no more interested in casual dating. The only thing that was bothering him to tell about his feelings to Shehnaaz was that what if the feelings weren't mutual and their friendship and bond would get ruined.

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